and meteoric crashes in central russia causing panic damage and leaving over twelve hundred injured. first scenes of violence in bahrain where stone throwing protesters are hit with tear gas and stun grenades in clashes which threaten attempts to ease two years of anti regime unrest in the gulf kingdom. and more nuclear test shock waves from north korea which detonate a device despite a un and international sanctions. a

live from our studios here in moscow this is our weekly news review well the world was why died this week of a dramatic images from central russia a plunging your exploded with a blinding flash before crashing in the urals early on friday well it's not hard to imagine the shock felt by the region's residents as they saw this incredible coming overhead incredible scenes where it took a while for people to actually realize what was happening when the meteor blast set off a powerful shockwave smashing windows in buildings injuring under will during those inside. takes a closer look now at how it all happened. it was like a scene from a movie but with one exception it was real first the brilliant flash this big

bright like him shining across the sky you know blinding brighter than the sun the skies were lit up by a meteor streaking across the skies above the russians. over want to have thousand kilometers east of moscow where not just unusual glare on the floor i thought it was lines from a car then we went to the window saw this strange cloud and then and then this. would turn around and the wall was a gun and someone had moved it the series of massive explosions rocked the entire city damaging buildings and shattering windows. nasa said the explosive force of the media were breaking up was the equivalent of two one to hear oshima bombs over twelve hundred people were injured including over two hundred children mostly from pieces of shattered glass. the windows just

exploded i saw one girl he had and a bring his hand we were told to quickly put all clothes on and ran outside and many were able to film the owner of the phenomenon later flooding the web with footage as rumors spread of what it might have been a stricken airplane a satellite that fell out of orbit even the beginning of the end of the world would mrs reported seeing fragments of the crashing all across the region. i saw a small can there was a weird smell but it was not a fire so i think it's a piece of meteorite and his small during them no however most of the sighting started out to be ordinary pete buck fires because so far officials have not found any fragments of the meteor for now the immediate priority. he's to look after the injured and repair the damage to buildings especially the broken windows in schools and residential areas as temperatures are married drop below minus fifteen celsius it's going to take time to clear everything out but for now science like this

collapsed factory or a clear reminder no matter how advanced technology gets nowadays often when it comes to nature we can only watch helplessly and hope for the best. reporting from the year olds there well the meet is dramatic strike fodder reaction online almost instantly with video being shared and bloggers speculating lindsay france has been keeping an eye on the web wide responses and joins us now what's been happening there is a lot of stuff online pertaining to this media from the merely factual to the downright outrageous i'm here just getting updated on the very latest of what's happening and i will be joining you in the studio with that in just a few minutes ok we will indeed thanks. in the meantime one startling aspect to this is that despite the huge size of the meteor no one seemed to see it coming it took everyone by surprise. some light on that side of the story. you may wonder why

the scientists haven't seen this thing coming after all it was quite a doozy was really large as a matter of fact it was the same time the scientists are saying that there's way too many things flying out there in outer space and a little this one was a big one they can't really keep track of everything that's coming but seriously this thing weighed more than ten thousand tons when it was approaching earth so the scientists say of course when it entered the atmosphere it mindblowing the speed of thirty kilometers per second that's really really fast when it entered the atmosphere it broke into several pieces and those went scattering all over the region this is the region that we're actually concerned with but it actually went all around the place we're only going with what the scientists and the emergency ministries are saying and they're saying that this icy pits is not anything for is not something for ice fishing as a matter of fact this is a crater where the fragment one of the fragments has fallen but again they haven't

found any fragments of the meteor there so i guess we only have to take their word for it of course we have to understand that this actually has been the biggest thing to hit this planet in over a century or so this scientists believe the last time something like this happened was in one thousand nine hundred eighty when the meteor or crash landed somewhere in siberia destroying thousands of square kilometers of forests causing acid rains to fall causing me and plants and forests but it's also one of the biggest mysteries in the universe because nobody has ever found a crater from the meteor or no no fragments of the meteor have been found so this is kind of a big mystery that a lot of people who are trying to cash in on this the even even today one hundred years later but back to reality back to present day region of course there has been plenty of damage you've seen the pictures of the damage to plants and buildings but

actually. a lot of people are saying it could have been a lot worse if history is any indication there are telescopes and networks operated by nasa the us that was cosmos and russia the european space agency others that are out there trying to detect its rocket asteroids but honestly there's a lot of there's hundreds of thousands and their biggest focus is on the really large ones ones that are hundreds of meters in diameter of a kilometer in diameter that could potentially you know do do into the dinosaurs and another thing to have been screeching is actually something of a nuclear hotspot in russia in fact during the soviet era this was the place for nuclear research so it has at least seven nuclear facilities that are located in the region and a lot of people are saying that if at least one of them was hit with one of the fragments from an asteroid we would have been dealing with complications infinitely worse than we're having on our hands right now we would be dealing with

a nuclear disaster but thankfully that did not happen and although this entire event was rather frightening and quite damaging still things could have been a lot worse and it's a good thing that everything turned out the way it did. well teaser there. as we've been saying the meet your blast went viral online within minutes of some enterprising locals taking a chance to try and cash in would you believe some people saying they wanted to sell parts of this it's me to write the fragments they think they found of course the most expensive was going off with ten thousand dollars would you believe it even if you did that she dipped into your pockets to buy something like this was it really a meteorite or just someone's rock piece of rock down the garden you can say there's no way of knowing what actually you're going to get. anyway i think. the front seat is going to join us now here in the studio and tell us a little bit about more of the the mood on the web what's been happening yeah it's funny it's outrageous what people are willing to make others believe at

a time like this and to see a little too much time on their hands as insurance fear is blowing up with information on this obviously the video coming in is outrageous it's wonderful it's dramatic it's everything you could want to see in a news story. people on their computers on their mobile devices are getting on twitter and trying to make other people believe it's worse than it really is one user saying that day tanks have passed down the street citizens are urged to get down to the shelters lunchbox handouts have been arranged marriage you know it's actually fake then he also is another he's got another post up here that says we're being given chemical protection gas masks have been handed out the city is almost entirely evacuated we're setting up barricades and invasion is looming aslant exaggeration just a little bit if an invasion was looming i doubt he'd be having the time to tweet about it and then of course you go to the the jokes that people in this situation

have had such a good sense of humor about something like this happening the twitter sphere i get is it going gangbusters the citizens of chelyabinsk are already checking what superpowers they may now have for slate how is this. falling rocks from the sky and then a little weather report it's negative seventeen degrees in chelyabinsk with a slight with wind and a slight a slight meteor shower just a just a little one right and then. a little in ode to valentine's day in those one liners you hear about plucking a star from the sky who's who is that guy who promised to pick a star from the sky valentine's day because obviously if you're out there trying to tell you about it of course and then of course you've got photoshop and what happens when photoshop and the internet meet obviously hilarious get angry birds is writing well they're going to be about the meter outside the yeah exactly bruce willis willis from armageddon stop calling me he's a russian favorite huge fan base here and then you've got you've got people like

not people you've got dinosaurs saying hey you know that's this meteor is something that killed my brother you've got there. this is the stuff that killed my brother you've got chuck norris shooting the media from the usa of course over to russia and then of course to be photoshop of all photoshop. there we have harnessing the power of the media are riding the ride through the air as he does or these amount of the yes we can say the riding horses you know petting tigers although he did not include him in that. i have to tell you was well that was a bit of a football story yeah this is a much before the match which means in the liverpool one and english team and someone was predicting and saying that it was in the wins against liverpool then for me too it will strike the earth and guess what they have a pool on the meteor did this guy's got to have a career in the betting industries now he's he's he's got foresight amazing i think you. will keep a close eye on is that of course bring any updates of the hilarious outrageous or

interesting and i want to cross our computer screen ok this is for us thank you for that of course. well that if you've missed anything we've been showing on our to you can also get it well at all t. dot com all the dramatic pictures or there are of course the images from the crash reaction and first time the counts just a click away. i. know how the volatile situation in bahrain has been exacerbated by the latest clashes between the antigovernment protesters and security forces this weekend scores were reportedly injured when riot police used tear gas and stun grenades against demonstrators throwing stones and petrol bombs violence broke out when the protesters tried to make their way to the funeral of

a teenager who was allegedly killed by security forces area this week during a rally marking two years of the anti-government uprising that incident and the turmoil which followed has jeopardized talks between the sunni dominated government and a mostly shelter opposition which are now stalled and activists say there are no signs of either progress or pending reforms we're looking at two years in which we've seen no reform we've seen nothing change i mean we started this uprising two years ago and on that day the first martyr of the uprising was killed and now two years later on the same day fourteen february another teenager has been killed and this really shows and displayed a lack of will for continuous human rights abuses the continuous repression taking place on the streets about rain it's good that dialogue has come back on the agenda and there is discussions happening but it seems that you know this latest latest escalation of the security against the people is going to possibly put dine in

jeopardy within the ruling family i think of course there are those who simply want to please the international community to say look we're having this dialogue and there is not a great thing what's continuing the violations on the street. some of the scenes echoed in libya with protests there also marking two years since the deadly uprising. we take a look at why the ousting of moammar gadhafi is still brought no radical changes for the better to the country about the whole. world really. funny it's technology innovation all the moves developments from around russia we've got the future covered. you know how sometimes you see a story and it seems so for lengthly you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realize everything

you thought you knew you don't know i'm tom harpur welcome to the big picture. more news today violence has once again flared up. these are the images world world has been seeing from the streets of canada. giant corporations rule the day. welcome back you're watching. borders closed international flights suspended security forces on high alert that's how libya is marking two years since the

beginning of the uprising that resulted in a bloody civil conflict foreign intervention and the toppling of the longtime leader moammar gadhafi parties and these are now explains why any sort of ration is overshadowed by desperation that the current government and faces of more unrest. from our graphic has lost legitimacy to lead and he must leave the shoot at their feet it's impossible to imagine a future for libya with get daffy still in power he must go. well gadhafi is long gone and we don't need to imagine but can take a close look the revolt which began in benghazi was followed by an eight month nato bombing campaign costing thousands of lives and left libya torn apart drowning in conflict and suffocating in stagnation still rich in oil libya economically is

a mess despite rampant unemployment and an overwhelming housing crisis huge construction projects are on hold and violence reigns if you look at the country before the bombardment invasion by nato and nato supported militias. the country now you can clearly see that the country is suffering from the front problems that the not exist before the country's infrastructure has been destroyed you have militias running. freely on the streets attacking people killing people and doing whatever they want so yes a lot has changed but not for the better amnesty international describes tribalism post gadhafi as armed militias acting completely out of control hundreds of them across the country arresting people without warrant detaining them incommunicado

and torturing them all these points gadhafi was accused of by the rebels and the west now the watchdog says this is happening while the government is unwilling or unable to rein the militias in another problem is the south in december libya closed off its borders without niger chad and sudan citing a deterioration of security and declared the region a military zone well recently a video has emerged of representatives of the south libyan tribes declaring independence for the region the federation of south libya they claim the government has failed to secure the inside of the country and borders and this is a result of stalled economic activity and discontinue a. and other essential infrastructure projects that have been driven by international partners well it's still not clear how that news is being taken in tripoli but it cambodia well for any chance of stability and finally who is reaping the fruits of this revolution well some analysts say it's an economic powerhouse

putting lots of money into the region that the west just doesn't have while at the same time benefiting from their military efforts it's china the chinese have no boots on the ground they have no army use their. military. so two years after the revolution for libya the only certainty is still gadhafi is gone we can check out our website for more analysis of the consequences of the nato backed regime change in libya that and much more on r.t. dot com north korea is reportedly preparing for more atomic tests despite the widespread international fury after it detonated a third nuclear device on tuesday described the move as an effort to shore up its national security and safeguard its sovereignty against what it called outrageous u.s. students will test prompted warnings from washington and its allies of more sanctions

looming for the communist state asia based independent news editor james corbett says the timing of the latest one couldn't have been worse. really i think we fall into a lot of diplomatic pressure on china to use its leverage with north korea and it's and i imagine that officials in beijing must have known that this this was coming probably in the next few days and it certainly is it couldn't have happened at a worse time internationally speaking it's the lunar new year in china so basically be entire country is on holiday and in the u.s. you there is no confirmed secretary of defense or central intelligence director so it's a very interesting time throw that through into that the wild card of xi jinping we don't know much about him or how he's going to lead china and the fact that kim jong un is a relatively new leader as well you also have the new all big government in japan and there's a lot of wildcards in this mix to see how this is going to shake out but i think on the question of china specifically if they have a lot of pressure that they can put on north korea

a couple of other international headlines for you now the south a series of car bomb blasts in baghdad have killed at least twenty eight people left more than one hundred injured explosions occurred in many shiite areas of the iraqi capital the shoppers attended outdoor markets no group has yet admitted the attacks and loss have brought the number of deaths in the region to more than fifty since the start of the year. and police in warsaw have clashed with demonstrators protesting against the independence of kosovo officers that used veterans against crowds and for that life knowing there's a place event started as a march on activists carrying banners saying in serbia the slogan was popularized by the serbian government itself to plan sovereignty in two thousand and eight. talking about american issues and concerns about foster enzyme parallelled musical matter targets one of the most painful problems for the us gun policy that's in

juice news coming up. united states is based on. you know i care rest say you'll never have the fall stole a load from the new system but welcome to the show today come on out to sing we've just got a studio upgrade like i'm on the system is devoted to the debate which has been totally devoted to the united states the same with the right pick mass shootings from the receipt to to sandy hook school while someone killed them and to stop the bloodshed of this want to prevent government coming is there a concept of the scheme passed we can stop x. but kids from opposing factions the military soon see it is

a representative of the black panthers problem is you know why the senate be on judgement preach peace compassion and abundance believe that reality by return to see some anonymous i agree but why ban guns what you're launching random you kidding the second amendment is a sacred law beyond guns are evil people are just sick suggested john crimes a mask only happen when people don't have access to semiautomatic weapons and we were given this precious right to bear arms not for hunting bears but to protect just you don't farm from pics of americans who would defend the land from the colonists no property from our own freaking government restates the winter when it comes to pay to try to take power they take the people look at hitler would stop obamacare parchments listen chavez george the third in fact is that a brit accent in the seventy seventy six look up sometimes you can't tell him what comes try to tell god ok let's hear from the general but it's the first time we've had you both in the studio together frankly i'm shocked by what this loss of valuable american lives is a tragedy eleven thousand gun murders

a year can be truly we need to stop this insanity to see justice our new citizenry leave guns to the criminal smugglers the military publication is the key. we need a war on drugs and work like our war on drugs. from my cold and far away chill place i understand the respect the second amendment to you but can you provide events like the overseer. when temperance joining to do same shorty no longer called a gun you've been taking your meds the feds will go away to warn you david koresh of the school shooting that incident in connecticut was a deliberate orchestrated spike set up with aim to take our weapons and make the best of them better use them plastic and sometimes they can. but some like same are waiting to take the united states and be given a creative dictatorship in this are the only one standing in the way of it if the slaves want guns let them be our supremacy doesn't depend on weaponry which still

is media money and we controlled every aspect of your life why the logical examination if you think you can stop your reading what you're waiting for the authorities strip you of your liberty for the civil rights and dignity if you won super bowls. globalists. well i guess that sums it up and brings us to point to the end of our report on guns in the divided states of america sadly it's not our place to pass judgment but

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